Observatory: Elephants’ Rumble Is More Like Talking Than Purring, Larynx Study Finds

Friday, August 3, 2012 - 02:00 in Biology & Nature

The thundering rumbles that elephants use to communicate are produced by a mechanism more akin to the way people talk or sing than to the way cats purr, say scientists who analyzed an elephant larynx.

Read the whole article on NY Times Science

More from NY Times Science

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net